Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway.
Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol. 2011 Jun;25(3):427-34. doi: 10.1016/j.bpg.2011.05.006.
There is no clear distinction between research and quality assurance (QA). Both entities should be of high quality to serve as trustworthy tools for continuous evidence-based improvements in health care. Both research and QA should be of interest to an audience of readers of medical science - provided that the work is up to standards. Quality in research encompasses issues actually dealt with (are we putting our resources into the right things), validity (are the findings valid for other than the patients tested), ethics (why should patients consent to studies that have no prospect of giving an answer to the questions put in the research protocol) - in addition to quality of design and presentation. Likewise, QA work could gain much on a stronger focus on research methods - as suggested in the upcoming Competetitive Effectiveness Research. In conclusion, quality in research and research in QA should be asked and requested more often.
研究和质量保证（QA）之间没有明确的区别。两者都应该具有高质量，才能成为医疗保健持续循证改进的可靠工具。只要工作达到标准，研究和 QA 都应该引起医学科学读者的兴趣。研究中的质量涵盖了实际处理的问题（我们是否将资源投入到正确的事情上）、有效性（研究结果是否对除了接受测试的患者之外的其他患者有效）、伦理学（为什么患者应该同意进行研究，而这些研究对于研究方案中提出的问题没有任何答案）——除了设计和呈现的质量。同样，质量保证工作可以通过更加强调研究方法来获得更多收益——正如即将到来的竞争有效性研究所建议的那样。总之，应该更频繁地要求和请求研究和 QA 中的质量。
